Word: worthlessness
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...this nation, like those of Nazi Germany, no longer seem capable of tolerating dissent. The great consensus has become a patriotic duty, and some have gone so far as to suggest that those who cannot accept it ought to be pulled up by the roots and thrown aside like worthless weeds...
...challenger faces a formidable--and probably thankless--task of campaigning. If he ever expects to win, he will usually have to spend one race just getting himself known, and then the next two years solidifying the personal ties he has made. Still, he may leave a weak and politically worthless impression: "George is a nice guy, and I'd like to give 'em my number one, but--has been a good councillor, and besides which, he got cousin...
Pakistan reacted in fear in 1962 when the U.S. shipped India $200 million worth of tanks and planes to prevent the Chinese from nibbling the northeast frontier. Nehru promised that the arms would never be used against Pakistan, but a skirmish in the worthless Rann of Kutch swamplands proved that India would break her vow. The State Department quickly labelled Pakistan as the aggressor and filed the entire matter...
...even letters spell two complete words: tinily and renal. The longest English word that can be typed in the top letter line of a typewriter is-typewriter? The longest English word without an e in it is floccinaucinihilipilification (the action or habit of estimating things as worthless...
...stopped in Berlin long enough to discover that in place of 40 oils and 160 smaller works he had left with a dealer, there were one million worthless reichsmarks-at the same time that a single Chagall was being auctioned for a hundred times more. And, when he got to Paris, the canvases locked up in his La Ruche studio were gone. They had been sold into private hands, and his reputation had spread with them. He was famous at last-and dead broke...